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You dont really need full size/resolution images on a web page.
You people are why some sites have ugly blurry logos/images on my 4k screen
more the fault of the site devs for not using css media queries, or svg ;p
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#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those studies all come from companies trying to sell you something. They seemed to come from when mobile phones were much slower when there was a valid use for AMP pages. A/B test data is very easy to cherry pick from and you can see a 10% increase in conversation based on random chance. I can see my marketing team misinterpret data like that and use it for promotion. I am skeptical. I improved the initial loading sp…
Some of these, not all, don't even seem to be A/B tests, just correlation being explained as causality.
"This more streamlined design that also happens to load faster led to higher conversion rates! It must be because it loads faster!"
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#303Any other Indian website in the list other than Zerodha.com?
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#304I love it! I feel like the 1MB limit is excessively generous, especially for text-only pages. But maybe that's what makes it so damning when pages fail to adhere to it. I know at least one website I maintain fails it spectacularly (though in my defense it's entirely because of that website being chock-full of photos, and full-res ones at that; pages without those are well under that 1MB mark), while other sites I've…
Next level: The 1MB Quine Club.
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In response to your second point, please tell me who benefits from the 20mb of cruft loaded when accessing the page? Aside from the marketing monkeys that put it all there in the first place?
The reader who gets to read the page for free in exchange for that marketing cruft being there.
Per definition the reader gets less value than the marketing monkeys.
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just for your information, from their legal page: "...linking to this website without written permission is prohibited." Not sure what is meant by this, but I found it funny.
Imagine if we all wrote?
HN hug of love, by snail mail. Buffet Bro would get so busy BRK share price might drop a few bucks due to this alone ;-)
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#307100 KB of images is not the same as 100 KB of JavaScript. You could technically still create a website that is a 1 KB HTML document that loads almost 1 MB of JavaScript, which is definitely too much.
How about WebAssembly? Whats your size limit for that?
Good question. I don’t know.
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#308I love it! I feel like the 1MB limit is excessively generous, especially for text-only pages. But maybe that's what makes it so damning when pages fail to adhere to it. I know at least one website I maintain fails it spectacularly (though in my defense it's entirely because of that website being chock-full of photos, and full-res ones at that; pages without those are well under that 1MB mark), while other sites I've…
Do they check the 1 MB limit?
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#309Ahh let the bikeshedding continue. In these situations all I want to say is "Who cares". Optimization matters when it actually solves a problem, before that it's just wasted effort. I don't hear the general public yelling from the rooftops "The web is too slow! Developers are building too fast! I wish we could go backwards!"
The public continues to smoke 40-50 years since it’s been shown that it causes cancer. The public isn’t a good indicator.
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If you were able to calculate the space in the document flow for those images, I'm fine with the lazy loading. I hate when the page text appears rendered long enough that I start reading, but then lazily loaded items cause the flow to rearrange the text so that I lose my place.
I imagine it should be pretty easy with javascript to set up dummy images, and replace them... probably also doable in pure css, just make them a block element or something, with a set size...
You don't have to imagine everything. Normally the lazy-loaded image should be seeded with transparent SVG that as the same dimension. It's a solved problem.